2016-2017 Intermediate Fellowships for Developing countries in Public Health
and Tropical Medicine

Intermediate Fellowships for Developing countries in Public Health
and Tropical Medicine , and Applications are considered twice a year. Details of the next round (November 2016 round ): -Preliminary application deadline: 28 November 2016. -Full application deadline: 13 February 2017. -Shortlisted candidate interviews: 19 June 2017. May 2016 round: -Preliminary application deadline: 23 May 2016. -Full application deadline: 18 July 2016. -Shortlisted candidate interviews: 22–23 November 2016. Wellcome
Trust is offering research fellowships in Public Health and Tropical
Medicine. Research should be aimed at understanding and improving
public health and tropical medicine of local, national and global
relevance. Fellows must be based primarily in a low- and
middle-income country. The fellowships are awarded for up to
five years and provide a basic salary which will be based on the pay
scales of the employing institution or allowances and cover research
expenses, training costs. Full details:

School(Institutions/
Country): | Fellows
must be based primarily in a low- and middle-income
country. Fellowships may be held in ‘not for profit’
institutions that are able to sign up to Grant Conditions. Applicant
may apply to remain in their current laboratory (even if already
holding an established post), to return to one where he/she have
previously worked or to move to a new laboratory, in a low- and
middle-income country.

Level:
Research
Fellowship Programme.

Field(s):
Research
should be aimed at understanding and improving public health and
tropical medicine of local, national and global relevance. Public
health and tropical medicine cover a wide range of health problems,
including communicable and non-communicable diseases. Topics
include: demographic, social science and health economic
studies -epidemiological, field and community based studies -health
care systems and policy research -measurement of infectious and
chronic disease burden -population studies -clinical trials and
case control studies -studies of disease mechanisms in the natural
host -determinants of disease susceptibility and
resistance -immunity or resistance in natural hosts or vectors

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Fellows
must be based primarily in a low- and middle-income country.

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Research
should be aimed at understanding and improving public health and
tropical medicine of local, national and global relevance.

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Public
health and tropical medicine cover a wide range of health problems,
including communicable and non-communicable diseases.

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This
can include laboratory based molecular analysis of field or clinical
samples, but projects focused solely on studies in vitro or using
animal models will not normally be considered under this scheme.

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This
2014-2015 Intermediate Fellowships for Developing countries is part of a series of career awards aimed at building
sustainable capacity in areas of research that have the potential for
increasing health benefits for people and their livestock in low- and
middle-income countries.

Eligibility

To be eligible for Intermediate Fellowships for Developing countries , applicant must:

‣ Must be a national or legal resident of a low- and middle-income country and

‣ should be either: -a graduate in a subject relevant to public health or tropical medicine (e.g. biomedical or social science, veterinary medicine, physics, chemistry or mathematics) with a PhD and three to six years’ postdoctoral experience, or -a medical graduate with a higher qualification equivalent to membership of the UK Royal Colleges of Physicians (i.e. qualified to enter higher specialist training) or recognized as a specialist within a relevant research area, with three to six years’ research experience

‣ must have a relevant high-quality publication record and show potential to become a future scientific leader.

‣ Applicants who do not have a PhD but who are educated to first degree or Master’s level and have extensive research experience, as evidenced by their publication record, may be considered.

Notification:

‣ Intermediate Fellowships for Developing countries Candidates shortlisted for interview will normally be notified four weeks before the interview date. Interviews will be conducted at our offices in London. Travel and accommodation costs will be provided.